Hypnotherapy in the irritable bowel syndrome

1 January 1987

journal article
coping with-stress
Published by Wiley in Stress Medicine

Vol. 3 (1), 5-7
https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2460030104

Abstract

In a controlled clinical trial 30 patients with severe classic irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) were allocated to receive treatment with hypnotherapy or placebo medication plus supportive psychotherapy. After three months all the patients in the hypnotherapy group improved dramatically but only two patients in the control group improved. Since that time we have reported our additional experience with more patients and a mean follow‐up time of 18 months. The technique of hypnosis is described and preliminary work that has been undertaken using direct measurements of gastrointestinal motility has demonstrated that hypnotised patients seem to have the ability to influence motility.

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